What is your favorite holiday? Perhaps it’s Christmas, Hanukkah or Halloween. Every culture has special days or festivals. Many of these festivals are religious. Christmas, for example, celebrates the birth of Christ, while the feast of Eid ul-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, a month-long Muslim...

For thousands of years, religion has helped people understand the world and their place in it. People want to know why they’re here, how they got here and where they’ll go after they die. Religion can answer these questions.
Religion often gives people certain rules to live by. For...

Have you ever traded something with a friend? Maybe you traded Pokemon cards for Skylander cards . Before people had money, they traded for the goods they needed. A farmer might trade vegetables with a weaver for cloth. As time went by, people used objects, such as beads or shells for money....